[Ubuntu] How to mount the external hard drive permanently

I will introduce this topic with a real example. The scenario is that I have two external NTFS hard drives. I want them to behave like the partition on Windows, like D drive, E drive something. However, every time when the Ubuntu is rebooted, those two hard drives are mounted to the path /media/<username>/<label name> and they are read-only. I wrote a temporary solution for the above issue, but it stil requires to execute the command every time when PC boots. This post will give a one-go solution. ...

[Ubuntu] External hard drive is read-only

Yesterday I installed Ubuntu on my PC, but I met an issue about the external drive is always the read-only. As the hard drive was the destination of my internal minio server, so I have make it writable too. Error: mkdir: cannot create directory ‘abc’: No such file or directory When I ran the df -T, it shows like /dev/sdb2 fuseblk 3907000316 278934580 3628065736 8% /media/username/InternalBackup I labelled the hard drive name as InternalBackup in the Windows OS before. ...

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